Tuesday, 18 December 2012

Sepia Saturday 157 : Christmas 2012

It is Christmas time here on Sepia Saturday and, as usual, we are having a Sepia Season by having just one call for the entire Christmas and New Year Season. So you can post your contributions to Sepia Saturday 157 at your leisure and add a link to the list below when you get a few minutes between eating the mince pies and pulling the Christmas crackers. You could even join in the singing with Santa Claus on this tram in Stockholm in 1950, or you could give us your own take on Christmas based on your old photographs, or ignore any pretext of a theme and just share a fascinating old photograph. Just post your post, link your link, and have a wonderful Christmas. The normal Sepia Saturday will return on Saturday 5th January and here is a quick preview of our next two theme images.

Before I go, I would like to wish all Sepia Saturday followers and participants a most happy Christmas and wonderful New Year. In particular, can I take this opportunity to thank the two people who have helped me so much in keeping the Sepia Calls coming each week by taking over the reins when I have been away : Marilyn Brindley (Little Nell) and Kat Mortensen. I know many of us have had Marilyn in our thoughts over recent weeks as she has had to cope with the loss of both her father and her sister-in-law. Marilyn e-mailed me the other day and asked me to pass on her thanks to all her Sepia Saturday friends for their support in this difficult time and to say that she will be posting again in the new year.

Over the years, Sepia Saturday has become a wonderful supportive community, one which I am very proud to be a member of. Thank you all for making it so, have a splendid Christmas and New Year.

58 comments:

While some people might think that being trapped on a tram with an accordion sounds like a nightmare, it sounds like a lot of fun to me. If we could just arrange a tram car full of Sepia Saturday participants and add some champagne, I think we'd have the ideal celebration. Alan, thanks to you and Kat for hosting a virtual party that sometimes resembled a festive streetcar. i wish everyone a happy holiday with especially warm thoughts for Marilyn.

I'm sort of early as I know it's going to be a busy next few days. So sorry for being negligent, but the best I can do right now is get my own posts up and respond to comments. Hope to get "back on track" in the new year.

Well my little naive post is up. I have never ridden a tram and probably never will. I just love reading about all the adventures of everyone. Thanks for a great year Alan and Kat. I will be right there next year. Missed last week due to a low down feeling I had about the mass murders in Ct. Blessings to all.QMM

Christmas Past includes the tree for our fesitivies in 1953. We often had a feast as well. This may not look like much compared to what my grandchildren receive under their trees, but it was great fun for us! PS, there's a comment up there that's SPAM...hint hint.

A very warm greeting to you Alan and everyone in our truly wonderful world of sepia magic. I tied up the last couple weeks with my post- I am wishing all a very Merry Christmas time, and may you all bring more happy memories to your life.

Merry Christmas to all the Sepia community from another negligent one whose time has been otherwise occupied. I did lose the spammers by blocking the ability to post anonymously, so perhaps that will have to happed with Sepia as I see the clowns have invaded.

Merry Christmas everyone. I'm late and may have the distinction of being last! This week's prompt was full of possibilities - I do love the accordion (apparently I'm one of few) and have great nostalgia for that kind of street car. Looking forward to more great prompts in 2013.

Sepia Saturday

Launched by Alan Burnett and Kat Mortensen in 2009, Sepia Saturday provides bloggers with an opportunity to share their history through the medium of photographs. Historical photographs of any age or kind (they don't have to be sepia) become the launchpad for explorations of family history, local history and social history in fact or fiction, poetry or prose, words or further images. If you want to play along, all we ask is that your sign up to the weekly Linky List, that you try to visit as many of the other participants as possible, and that you have fun.